As the data center building spree continues and the federal government rolls back environmental and health protections, the ...

Adult literacy challenges deepen health inequities, limit opportunity and are linked to incarceration. Even so, efforts to ...

Stories of preeclampsia, ignored pain and systemic racism show how preventable failures cost Black women and babies their ...

As the deadly winter surge in coronavirus cases began last November, Fred Mekata was doing something that had become unthinkable to millions of Americans: moving into an assisted-living facility. The ...

One survivor of years of sexual abuse in a southeastern Massachusetts public school said her harrowing experience has proved particularly distressing to process – in large part, because of how ...

This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Rachel Monahan, a participant in the 2020 National Fellowship. Anna Kasachev got her start in Oregon politics by lobbying against a bill ...

After being displaced by a fire in May in the Jones Senior Homes apartment complex in San Francisco’s Japantown neighborhood, elderly residents were abruptly forced to adapt to unfamiliar ...

In the months leading up to the June 30 shutdown of California’s more than 100-year-old lockups for juveniles, teenagers through 25-year-olds convicted of crimes such as robbery, rape and murder were ...

A bill introduced in Congress this month would end the disparity in how long-term disability insurance carriers treat physical conditions and mental conditions or substance abuse disorders. Today, ...

This is the first in a multi-part series about racial and economic disparities in LA County’s child welfare system, and the impact family surveillance and separation has on kids and their parents. In ...

Ana Rosa Villegas López points to the scattered images of her son on the walls of the Mecca Public Library in Southern California. In one, he stares straight at the camera, his sleeplessness etched ...